NetBackup™ Web UI Red Hat Virtualization Administrator's Guide
- Managing Red Hat Virtualization servers
- Upgrading to NetBackup 10.3
- Quick configuration checklist to protect Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
- Configuring secure communication between the Red Hat Virtualization server and NetBackup host
- About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with Red Hat Virtualization
- Add or browse an Red Hat Virtualization manager
- Configure autodiscovery of the Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Remove an intelligent VM group
- Setting global limits on the use of Red Hat Virtualization resources
- Protecting RHV virtual machines
- Recovering RHV virtual machines
- Troubleshooting RHV VM protection and recovery
- API and command line options for RHV
Things to know before you protect Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
You cannot backup the same Red Hat Virtualization VM concurrently.
The VMs without virtual disks cannot be protected.
The following QCOW2 image attributes are not supported:
Compressed cluster
Encrypted disks
Virtual disks with internal snapshots
If the VM virtual disks are locked when the NetBackup services shutdown or crash during a backup, use Red Hat Virtualization's unlock_entity command to unlock the disks. If the disks are not unlocked, the subsequent backups might fail.
See Error run into while backing up Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines.
On a file storage (NFS), a QCOW2 disk gets restored as raw disk (thin provision) because of an Red Hat Virtualization limitation.
A thin dependent cloned VM is restored as an independent cloned VM.
If you want to use a storage that is not available through the NetBackup Web UI like a tape or basic disk based storage unit, you can use APIs or command line options to protect the VMs.
For the minimum permissions required to perform VM backup and restore, see https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100050733